"There and Back" Story: Difference between revisions

[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of [[The Seven Basic Plots]], after all.)

* This can overlap with [[Orphean Rescue]], if the people doing the rescuing encounter beings or wonders (or both) during their rescue mission.

* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]] tends to have the trip take place through time, rather than through space.

* The [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] and [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] send the travelers into somebody else (one way or another), fully expecting to make their way out at the end of their trip.

* This plotline is a key fixture of many works of [[Children's Literature]] and [[Coming of Age Stories]].

* [[The Big Race]] is a frequent form of this, as is many a [[Vacation Episode|Vacation]] or [[Road Trip Episode]] ([[Road Movie|including the movies]]).

* If you go "there" but can't get "back" so easily, then you're [[Trapped in Another World]].

And so on.

If multiple people are brought along for the ride, expect "[[Are We There Yet?]]" to be asked quite often.